[debate on club members not disclosing email address etc]
This has gone into the weeds a bit. According to the original message, all of the original club members have an account that was imported onto the website database, and the userid is their quirky membership id. Presumably the club has enough contact information for them to get their subs paid. Can’t see any reason to worry about them. They can presumably update their user accounts themselves to add one if they change their minds.
For new members (if I lived closer, maybe I’d join!), the form asks for both a userid and an email address, and all fields on the (short) form appear to be mandatory. So they have to provide a real one, or will put in a fake one :-), therefore the website will either work fine for them or they’ll need to contact the membership secretary to get their subs paid. Mildly inconvenient but not a huge problem.
Anyway, hello. I’m a relatively new list member though I’ve been using unix and linux (at work & at home) for decades.